Toxic Heavy Metals In Baby Food.

"Arsenic, Lead, Cadmium and Mercury"

Remember way back when I first joined ATS there was talk about the FDA being 'the most corrupt organisation in America' but now it turns out even they are issuing warnings about the insanely high levels of toxic, heavy metals found in baby food.

Samples taken from Gerber, Beech-Nut, Earth's Best Organic and HappyBABY have all been found to contain dangerously high levels of Arsenic, Lead, Cadmium and Mercury in their baby food.. but don't worry the companies PR departments have assured everyone they are still 'committed to safety'.

Here's Russell discussing the 'comedic lunacy' of it all and the resulting response from a U.S. Congressional investigation.

No parent would intentionally feed their baby arsenic. Yet a disturbing number of parents may be unknowingly doing just that. Surely the companies making these foods will immediately cease production, right?

a reply to: karl 12

How did people get brainwashed that they couldn't feed their children ...actual food? Like.. the same foods you are eating?

At both ends of the spectrum, from people who will only feed their children bottled mush, to people who spend hours creating curated baby smoothie recipes and end up with hardcore anxiety.

How did we all get so f*cked up over foods? (We all know.)

This should show People we are not being protected any loner they put People in place that have conflicts of interest to oversee food safety.
There is no loner anyone to trust with our health but ourselves.

a reply to: karl 12

So if I’m to believe this fellow, gerber foods gets lead, cadmium and arsenic delivered to their processing plants so they can intentionally add the stuff to baby food? How else could these get into their products…

Or, is this contamination come directly from the food source being supplied to gerber?

91 times more arsenic,
117 times more lead,
More than what?

More cadmium than the fda allows in bottled water…..

Well cadmium is not water soluble so yeah…neither is lead.

I’m not saying to dismiss any claims that there are issues with baby food but let’s hear the whole story.
How about a comparison of gerber broccoli company to your local grocery stores fresh broccoli.

originally posted by: Atsbhct
How did people get brainwashed that they couldn't feed their children ...actual food? Like.. the same foods you are eating?

Do infants like Sevruga, foie gras and A5 Wagyu?

If not, they should.

originally posted by: Bluntone22

So if I’m to believe this fellow..

You don't have to believe anyone mate - just follow the sources cited in the actual video.

Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, released a staff report showing that baby foods are tainted with dangerous levels of toxic heavy metals that endanger infant neurological development and long-term brain function. 

PDF File - U.S. Congressional Report

Lots of mainstream sources out there including WP, NYT, The Guardian etc. but here's the first search result I came across.

Internal documents from major baby food manufacturers show they tested and used ingredients with high levels of arsenic, lead, cadmium and mercury in the baby food they sold to parents, according to a congressional investigation.

Leading baby food manufacturers knowingly sold products with high levels of toxic metals, a congressional investigation found

(CNN)Four leading baby food manufacturers knowingly sold baby food that contained high levels of toxic heavy metals, according to internal company documents included in a congressional investigation released Thursday.

"Dangerous levels of toxic metals like arsenic, lead, cadmium and mercury exist in baby foods at levels that exceed what experts and governing bodies say are permissible," said Democratic Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi of Illinois, chair of the House Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, which conducted the investigation, signed by the Democratic members.

Krishnamoorthi said the spreadsheets provided by manufacturers are "shocking" because they show evidence that some baby foods contain hundreds of parts per billion of dangerous metals. "Yet we know that in a lot of cases, we should not have anything more than single digit parts per billion of any of these metals in any of our foods," he told CNN.

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a reply to: AugustusMasonicus

I feel like foie gras would perfectly translate into a baby food...

a reply to: Bluntone22

They all are naturally occurring in ground water/soil and depending on where you are the levels coming out of the ground could exceed the guidelines by a large margin. If you add any kind of thermal processing where you have evaporative loss it would be concentrated further. Add pesticide applications and improper washing to the mix and you could easily exceed the guidelines by a significant margin.

The caveat is that those standards they're discussing are for water and total dose is considered for how much whatever demographic you're looking at consumes on average. The levels acceptable in water don't equate to "safe" levels in food. I consume many times the volume of water in a day than I do food. You can't do a directly comparison of how many parts per million/billion are safe when estimated consumption is a cup of food vs a couple liters of water.

There's also a problem with the evidence. Many of the EPA standards are based on very little data, animal studies, and other extrapolated data. It makes using them as precise guidelines a little iffy even for their intended purpose.

a reply to: Atsbhct

Good question - also looks like Walmart, Campbells and Sprout Organic refused to cooperate with the government investigation.

Then there’s this: three other companies – Walmart, which sells baby food through its brand Parent’s Choice; Campbell, which owned Plum Organic at the time of the investigation; and Sprout Organic Food – “refused to cooperate” with the investigation. The House subcommittee on economic and consumer policy, which released its findings in February, said it was “greatly concerned” that those companies’ “lack of cooperation might be obscuring the presence of even higher levels of toxic heavy metals in their baby food products than their competitors’ products”.

Why are there dangerous levels of arsenic and lead in American baby food?

Effects on children:

we know that arsenic is a carcinogen and that it can impair neurodevelopment in children even at low levels. Arsenic is also associated with lung disease, heart attacks and kidney failure. Similarly, lead is known to alter brain development in children, reducing attention span and intelligence and increasing the likelihood of antisocial behavior. Cadmium is linked to kidney and gastrointestinal diseases, DNA impairment, cancer, osteoporosis and immune system deficiencies.

Quote from author of report:

There’s no timeline and there’s no clear commitment to removing toxic heavy metals from baby food. I don’t see a sense of urgency. Perhaps they aren’t understanding the level of outrage among parents

Raja Krishnamoorthi

Cheers.

At what point in the production line should arsenic be coming ANYWHERE NEAR FOOD? these companies might want to start a criminal investigation into their employees or better yet the government should be doing it to the companies

I also echo what somebody else has said, why are parents giving their babies and toddlers jars of crap, and the answer I believe is sheer laziness, or just being so busy with work/life in general, but there is also a consumer sheep element involved where food companies would woo the lazy parents that it’s low salt low this and that and organic, it’s not it’s horrific junk always has been always will be, the best thing for your children is breastfeeding, and then proper dinners cut up properly

a reply to: karl 12

Something like 97% of products sold in Walmart come from where...?


China Baby Food Market Report 2021: Market will Grow at a Steady Pace and will Reach US$ 52.3 Billion by 2026

Supposedly, all leading market share baby formula is manufactured within the US.

Avoid Chinese-made baby formula, FDA says (2008)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Baby formula from China is illegal in the United States and should not be used, U.S. regulators warned on Thursday after Chinese officials blamed tainted formula for the death of an infant.

Gerber Products Company is an American purveyor of baby food and baby products headquartered in that wonderful state of New Jersey at Florham Park. Gerber is a subsidiary of Nestlé.

In 1994, Gerber merged with Sandoz Laboratories. Two years later, Sandoz merged with CIBA-Geigy to form Novartis, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. In 2007, Gerber was sold to Nestlé for $5.5 billion. Link

As of 2017, Gerber controls 61 percent of the baby food market in the United States.

I'll bet during the lockdown phase many young parents purchased baby food/formula online, like Amazon and Walmart. Lord knows how much has been directly and indirectly tainted. The only thing that matters to these megalomaniac psychopaths is the bottom line.💰 Live on farm (unless you're in New Jersey🤪) with a few cows, grow a garden, and buy a blender/juicer.

a reply to: Ksihkehe

That's the crux of the whole topic.
The standards for everything are always changing and they never put anything into context.

Just look at any report on radiation exposure.
1000 times normal background!
Total within safety standards though.

I want to see a study on air quality of babies raised in cities compared to rural environmental conditions.
Urban kids are probably exposed to multiple times of certain pollutants but does it have a measurable negative effect?

originally posted by: Atsbhct
I feel like foie gras would perfectly translate into a baby food...

I had poutine once with foie gras sauce. That should be on the weekly cafeteria rotation.

I swear some of you posters need to be checked for posting off-topic discussions. Do you have anything of substance to add to this discussion?

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There are machines that process all these foods at such a high volume and frequency that it's possible the metals used to make all the baby foods are contaminating the jars as well.

Not to mention all the ground contamination from soil, dirt, fertilizer, and water (all of which contain heavy metals and non-soluble compounds).

I'd say that a proper investigation should be worked on to find out if the contaminates are coming from the source foods, like a poster above mentioned, or if they are introduced from the factory floor.

Either way, it's pretty horrific.

a reply to: EndtheMadnessNow

Some great info there mate and for what it's worth I wasn't surprised to see Novartis, Nestle and Walmart on the WEF partner list.

Johnson and Johnson are also on there and was reminded of this related story from a while back.

Johnson & Johnson knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder

Facing thousands of lawsuits alleging that its talc caused cancer, J&J insists on the safety and purity of its iconic product.

But internal documents examined by Reuters show that the company's powder was sometimes tainted with carcinogenic asbestos and that J&J kept that information from regulators and the public.

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a reply to: havok

There was lead in paint on baby toys from China and lead in pacifiers.
I would ask is this lead also in what is manufactured for China to use or only exports.

originally posted by: havok
I swear some of you posters need to be checked for posting off-topic discussions. Do you have anything of substance to add to this discussion?

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There are machines that process all these foods at such a high volume and frequency that it's possible the metals used to make all the baby foods are contaminating the jars as well.

Not to mention all the ground contamination from soil, dirt, fertilizer, and water (all of which contain heavy metals and non-soluble compounds).

I'd say that a proper investigation should be worked on to find out if the contaminates are coming from the source foods, like a poster above mentioned, or if they are introduced from the factory floor.

Either way, it's pretty horrific.

It should be investigated, certainly. The public needs to be aware and they need to pressure them to change. It's inexcusable for them to be accepting contaminated materials.

The regs for commercial food processing require engineered plans and elimination of the potential for the machinery to contaminate food. Obviously machines wear and can leave contaminants in food, but it's not something that would give consistent concentrations. All surfaces that contact food have to be easily cleanable and non-reactive. Cobalt is only involved when food is irradiated and it's a non-contact process, usually after packaging. There is no regulation that allows for lead or arsenic to be in food production equipment.

It's almost certainly coming from one of their raw materials or there is a slim chance that the water is causing it. I don't think the water angle works for the concentrations they're citing though.

There's also the plants used. Some plants are particularly good at pulling contaminants from the soil. If you plant spinach on lead contaminated soil the spinach will have elevated lead levels. The topic needs more research, but it's a viable pathway for contaminants and I don't think it's a stretch that China may have no problem closing an industrial plant and turning it into a farm.

China has a problem with this. They're working on improving their image, but it's hard to forget their lead paint toys or cellulose baby formula.

originally posted by: SeaWorthy
a reply to: havok

There was lead in paint on baby toys from China and lead in pacifiers.
I would ask is this lead also in what is manufactured for China to use or only exports.

No no that was a mistake china would never do that they treat everyone (who is han Chinese) with dignity and respect /s

Oh to America well there not human so why dose that matter

China did have a problem like this with baby milk the people responsible where executed do you think anyone got executed over led on baby toys to America

a reply to: AugustusMasonicus

Poutine is absolutely baby food. Just let it get nice and soggy.

I do not understand why some families cant just make their own baby food for their infants. I mean you can get a food mixer.